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YUGOSLAVIA Uranium Traces U.N. scientists said they had found areas in Serbia and Montenegro where the soil and air is still contaminated by depleted uranium, three years after nato bombing in the region. The U.N. Environment Program said there was a risk of groundwater contamination from five sites in the Presevo Valley and at Cape Arza...
After ten years of often violent and convulsive episodes, Yugoslavia appears set to quietly slip away ? almost as if the country died in its sleep. On 14 March, representatives of Yugoslavia and its two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, announced that they had agreed to a new, looser structure for Yugoslavia along with a new name for the federation ? Serbia and Montenegro. The decision must now be ratified by the Yugoslav, Serbian, and Montenegrin parliaments. the whole story...
...long-term goal is to bring all the democracies of Europe together.” This goal cannot dwarf the EU’s foremost concern: to maintain shared security. Given this modus operandi, it seems implausible to expect that the EU will take in Serbia and Montenegro...
...certainly has ambition beyond self-preservation; now the EU “has the potential to become a political power too.” Even if Serbia and Montenegro does not gain admission into the union, its democratization reflects the EU’s expanding sphere of influence. The EU’s authority grows with the call for Serbia and Montenegro to “harmonize” its economic policies with those of the bloc even though officially the republics will maintain “considerable economic and political autonomy.” It speaks to the power...
...upon them. But this most recent move is just fanning latent flames toward independence. After all, the confederation is an impossible project, built upon the much-touted idea that Montenegro, a “separate” republic, would have “equal powers with Serbia.” This integration could more accurately be called political assimilation...